In this second session of the Building Bridges Across the Laboratory Community series, ASCP and CDC are excited to bring you a case study featuring Juan Gomez, PhD on how his team re-purposed existing and idle 3D printers at Texas State University to produce nasal swabs in support of the City of Austin’s COVID-19 testing response. This innovative strategy helped to locally address the widespread supply chain bottleneck involving access to nasal swab observed early in the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Gomez will share his experience collaborating with the city and other academic centers to support this effort as well as successes, challenges, and lessons learned to better inform future public health emergency response supply chain manufacturing and management.

Faculty

Juan Gomez, PhD
Research Associate, Department of Physics – Shared Research Operations, Texas State University